Archive for Science
What Is Real?
Posted by: | CommentsWatch this 2 minutes video of an interview with Quantum Physicist David Bohm (listen well, the sound track is not perfect!)
The Terror of Tomorrow
Posted by: | CommentsThis title is taken from a highly recommended book by Ken Wilber, A Theory of Everything.
In his book, Wilber writes: “One of the greatest problems and constant dangers faced by humanity is simply this: […] once a [external] material entity has been produced, it can be used by individuals who are at virtually any level of interior development. […] One of humanity’s constant nightmares has been that technological growth has always run ahead of growth in wisdom, care and compassionate use of that technology.”
The idea is that developments in EXTERIOR world technology have outpaced the development in INTERIOR world mastery (wisdom). Simply put, we all have access to and can use freely “stuff” that we could not have invented, and do not necessarily have the maturity to use wisely. It is a bit like entertaining a two year-old by giving him a lighter and some oil.
Modern Science and Eastern Mysticism
Posted by: | CommentsEarly 20th century scientific research on how the brain stores memories had shown that rats could still run a maze with a major part of their brain removed, which brought about the conclusion that memories were not stored in the brain, but throughout the whole body (the basis of the scientific proof of the mind-body connection).
Karl Pribram, in his pioneering work on the brain and the nervous system which led to the development of the holonomic model, shows that memories are stored, not in cells, but as wave patterns. His breakthrough discovery that the Human nervous system functions a hologram opened a whole new dimension to how we see the Mind and the nervous system (have you ever heard that we are only using 10% of the capacities of our brain?). A hologram is a light field resulting from the interference of two light beams (one of them going through an object) on a recording medium which appears as a 3D object. One of the interesting qualities of the hologram is that if you break the holographic plate, you get 2 whole pictures.
